Re: [gentoo-user] corefonts being depcleaned?

[Dale]

Stroller wrote:
>
> On 19 May 2010, at 23:14, David W Noon wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 19 May 2010 22:30:03 +0200, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user]
>> corefonts being depcleaned?:
>>
>> [snip]
>>> Yea, it has times, ariel and a few others that I use a lot so it has
>>> to stay.  I was going to try without it but I use those a lot.  Ariel
>>> is really good for me to read with these old glasses.
>>
>> Arial is simply the TrueType clone of Helvetica ...
>
>
> Helvetica (in red) overlaid with Arial (in blue):
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Arial_Helvetica_overlay2.svg
>
> "Though nearly identical to Linotype Helvetica in both proportion and
> weight (see figure), the design of Arial is in fact a variation of
> Monotype Grotesque, ... Subtle changes and variations were made to
> both the letterforms and the spacing between characters, in order to
> make it more readable on screen and at various resolutions."
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial
>
> Stroller.
>
>

My old eyes are right.  They are pretty close.  Almost a copy.  Shhhh, 
don't tell anyone.  They may try to sue each other.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)